The Pleasure of flowers

A good friend of mine found David Hicks’s Book on flower arranging ‘The David Hicks Book of Flower Arranging’, one day when we were going through our usual second-hand gold mines and that day she really did strike GOLD!

It is to Hicks testament that his designs, of all kinds interiors, fabrics, flowers are still as relevant today as the day they were designed for, his work shows that if we stay to good design principles we can create design that is truly timeless.

Looking through this book it is a pleasure to be inspired by the simple and classic approach to flower arranging. Full and colour block arrangements, spars and architectural designs, single stems, collections of different flowers all of which hold their own so many years on and will continue to.